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Getting Started with an IDE?

Having programmed through emacs and vi for years and years at this point, I have heard that using an IDE is a very good way of becoming more efficient. To that end, I have decided to try using Eclipse for a lot of coding and seeing how I get on. Are there any suggestions for easing the transition over to an IDE. Obviously, some will th...

How many of you prefer full screen?

How many of you prefer full screen for your applications? What are the advantages and disadvantages of doing this? Edit: I run all my applications full screen, that includes shell, browser, app etc. In this way, I feel less distraction and concentrate on what I am doing. ...

In eclipse, how to display inherited members in Outline view?

Typing Ctrl+O twice in editor when a java type is selected pops-up an outline context dialog that displays the members && inherited members. How can I have this in the main outline view? ...

Linq to SQL Association combo box order

This is kind of a weird question and more of an annoyance than technical brick wall. When I'm adding tables and such using the Linq-to-SQL designer and I want to create an association using the dialogs. I right click on one of the target tables and choose Add > Association as normal and I am presented with the Association Editor. The P...

JavaScript Debugger

Does anyone know of a really good editor to debug JavaScript (other then Visual Studio 2008 and FireBug)? ...

Is there a Macro Recorder for Eclipse?

Anybody know of a good eclipse plugin for recording and playing back macros? I've tried this one, but it didn't do me any good- seemed like it wasn't ready for primetime. I know about editor templates, but I'm looking for something that I can use to record my keystrokes and then apply multiple times against a wad of text. This seems li...

Using multiple web projects with different languages in Visual Studio

I need to combine a VB web project and a C# web project and have them run alongside each other in the same web root. For instance, I need to be able to navigate to localhost:1234/vbProjPage.aspx and then redirect to localhost:1234/cSharpProjPage.aspx. Is this possible from within Visual Studio 2008? I know you have the ability to crea...

Do you keep your project files under version control?

Do you keep project files like Eclipse's .project, .classpath, .settings under version control (e.g. subversion)? ...

Best IDE for Palm OS devices

Does anyone have experience with using a good quality IDE for Palm OS? In particular I'm looking for the ability to compile small non-colour .prc files for roll out to older Palm III models (8MB). ...

What is the best IDE for PHP ?

I'm a PHP developer and now I use Notepad++ for code editing, but lately I've been searching for an IDE to ease my work. I've looked into Eclipse, Aptana and several others but I'm not really decided, they all look nice enough but a bit complicated. I'm sure it'll all get easy once I get used to it but I don't want to waste my time. Th...

User Interface for creating Oracle SQL Loader control file

Is there a good user interface for authoring Oracle SQL Loader control files? PL/SQL Developer includes a "Text Importer" feature (that reminds one of the Excel import wizard) to import text files into tables, but uses a proprietary format instead of the SQL Loader format. Something like this for the SQL Loader format would be quite help...

Best PHP IDE for Linux / Gnome ?

Hey, I'm on a continuous mission to find the ultimate PHP IDE that will work with Gnome on Linux. Let me know what you think. Thanks a million! ...

Know of an OCAML IDE?

Know of an OCAML/CAML IDE? Especially one that runs on Linux? ...

Good Ada IDE?

What would be a good (free) Ada IDE for either Linux or Windows? ...

How to save file using Eclipse Monkey?

Hey, I've recently started working with Aptana and Eclipse Monkey. What I want to do now is to create a script that saves a file then uploads it to a FTP. Problem is that Eclipse Monkey is VERY poorly documented and Google returned only unrelated results. I've made it upload the file, but I need the script to save the file before uplo...

eclipse netbeans intelliJ Idea - IDE choice

With Netbeans recent milestones being very aggresive, Have you moved from eclipse to netbeans? This is also to anyone who may be using Ruby? At work, we are currently use eclipse, but many of us run our pet-projects on netbeans? you think netbeans will overtake eclipse? ...

VS2005 "Add New Item..." dialog - default item

After installing a third-party SDK, it very discourteously makes one if its templates the default item in "Add New Item..." dialog in Visual Studio 2005. This is also the case for all other similar dialogs - "Add Class...", "Add User Control..." etc. Is there a way to change this behavior? ...

Most rapid RAD environment for prototyping

What do you consider the most rapid RAD environment for a working prototype? Not for debate. language platform IDE DB (personal note) Thank you. P.S.1 I was pretty happy with PERL for back-end prototyping... I get stuck when dealing with the UI... it doesn't seem to come as easy... ...

VS2003/05 constantly screws up the display - is there any known fix for this?

Hello all, Running VS2003/05 under Vista makes the former screw up the display at least 50% of the time - you start debugging, VS kicks in and you see the windows/docking panes screwed up, not refreshing, etc... I've contacted Microsoft about this, but they weren't much help, I was wondering if someone knows any fixes? I'm running VS w...

Is there a good, free Python IDE for Windows?

Is there a good, free Python IDE for Windows? I really need some good debugging abilities. ...